What is a data scientist? To answer this, we will scrape "data scientist" job posts from Stack Overflow. In the last post, we looked at how to scrape a single job posting. Here, we will iterate that same script over hundreds of posts. Let's get started.

What is a data scientist? Seems like it means different things to different people. Well, what if we let the companies who need a data scientist tell us?

To do this, let's look at jobs on Stack Overflow. The advantage here is that each posting is along the same html format, as opposed to other sites like Indeed.com or Monster.com, where job descriptions vary by company. To do this, we need a cursory knowledge of html, and a python package that helps us with the heavy lifting.

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